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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men… — Alexander Hamilton
Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on. — Aberjhani
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is… — Juvenal
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of… — Vilayat Inayat Khan
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon… — Donald C. Peattie
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. — R. Edward Freeman
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by… — Jacques Monod
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. — Elisabeth of Wied
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue. — Alfred Stock
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any… — John B. Jervis
Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive… — Derek J. de Solla Price
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were… — Dorothy Wordsworth
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to… — John Dewey
Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When… — Robert D. Hales
The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that… — Pete Wilson
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges… — H.G. Wells
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy

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